Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:56:08 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates |
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Erez Zadok wrote: > > > > Documentation/CodingStyle | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > > I'm not very happy with this. > > "CodingStyle" should be about the big issues, not about details. > Yes, we've messed that up over the years, but let's not continue > that. > > In other words, I'd suggest *removing* lines from CodingStyle, not > adding them. The file has already gone from a "good general > principles" to "lots of stupid details". Let's not make it worse.
here's a radical idea -- what about splitting the content across two documents? you know ... perhaps "coding style aesthetics" versus "coding distinctions" or something like that.
oh, wait ...
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/1/18
:-)
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